Guest post from David Pugh, Program Director, Product Management, IBM Business Analytics
I really love speaking to customers who are pushing our software to its limits. Those customers who are at the bleeding edge... [Continue Reading]

In 2011, research from CMOs , CIOs and CFOs all ranked Business Analytics as a key area of technology investment to help drive business and uncover hidden insights in the explosion of data sources.
And... [Continue Reading]

In this edition of “Ask the Industry Analyst,” we sit down with Howard Dresner , Chief Research Officer of Dresner Advisory Services , and a well-known authority and author in the areas of Business Intelligence (BI) and Performance Management (PM).
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Guest post from Anuj Marfatia, Senior Market Manager, IBM Predictive Analytics Solutions
Not to frighten anyone, but there are only five weeks before the holidays. The pressure is... [Continue Reading]

There's a series of AT&T television commercials running in the U.S. that portray how quickly things move in today's digital age.
Twitter, Facebook and YouTube (among others) make it easy – and difficult – to... [Continue Reading]

Twas the night of business analytics , when all through the org No one in IT was stirring, the business felt like a morgue. Cognos Mobile dashboards were delivered to the iPad with care, In hopes that the CEO would soon review them there. The business line managers were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of Decision Management... [Continue Reading]

“All right stop, collaborate and listen…”
Some people might argue, but former rapper and musician Vanilla Ice was a visionary.
Truth be told, he probably wasn’t talking about business analytics when he eloquently penned those famous lyrics in “ Ice, Ice Baby .” But, he could have... [Continue Reading]

“Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.” ― George Eliot in Daniel Deronda
In the simplest of definitions, analytics is all about maximizing probability.
In other words, how do you use the information around you to gain a better advantage?
For... [Continue Reading]

Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive.
Able to deliver p erformance improvements by as much as 41 percent.
Look! In the IT department!
It’s a server! It’s a highly scalable platform for business intelligence!
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It has almost become a daily occurrence when I arrive home from work and go through the mail to find yet another credit card offer from my bank, even though I already have a credit card with that very same bank.
Shouldn't they already know I have one of their credit cards? Do they even know me? Or, care to?
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When we last left our friends, Harriet and Christoph at the fictitious Future Chips International, it was apparent that trouble was brewing. (See Part 1 here .)
IT and business are both dedicated to the organization, but there have always been preconceived notions about who owns the analytical... [Continue Reading]

We've all turned into spooked ostriches with our heads stuck in the ground.
As Matthew Broderick eloquently re-stated in a Super Bowl commercial reprising his famous Ferris Bueller role, "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile you could miss it."
In the world of social media,... [Continue Reading]

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